Proactive and predictive tools for transformation

Supply chain. Finance. Accounting. Inventory. Manufacturing. Procurement. HR. Name a mission-critical application that operates in the background to keep businesses running, and it falls under the umbrella of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Until recently, the sprawling, interconnected sets of ERP modules that ran these essential functions were configured and managed […]

Microsoft will pay $20M to settle US FTC charges that the company violated COPPA by collecting personal information from children without their parents’ consent (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:Microsoft will pay $20M to settle US FTC charges that the company violated COPPA by collecting personal information from children without their parents’ consent  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) will pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the tech company illegally …